Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables)
Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables)

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Tonjiru (豚汁) is a hearty miso soup with pork slices and vegetables. Packed with loads of vegetables and a small amount of pork, tonjiru is quite filling but you will be surprised to know the calories in tonjiru are low. Great recipe for Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables).

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have filling tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables) using 13 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables):
  1. Make ready 200 grams Pork belly, thinly sliced
  2. Make ready 1/4 Daikon (white radish)
  3. Prepare 1 Carrot
  4. Prepare 1 Burdock root
  5. Get 5 Taro root (satoimo potatoes)
  6. Make ready 1 slice Konnyaku
  7. Make ready 1 Green onion
  8. Take 1000 ml Strong bonito dashi stock
  9. Prepare 3 tbsp Blended miso
  10. Get 3 tbsp Red miso
  11. Get 1 tbsp Mirin
  12. Take 1 Sesame oil (to taste)
  13. Get 1 Ichimi spice or shichimi spice (to taste)

To finish, add the soy sauce and green onion. Tonjiru is a savory miso soup with pork and root vegetables. Packed with an excellent source of vitamins, it's absolutely nourishing and soul-fulfilling! If you ask me what is my favorite miso soup, I would immediately say Tonjiru (豚汁).

Steps to make Filling Tonjiru (miso soup with pork and vegetables):
  1. Cut the pork slices into bite sizes. To prepare the vegetables: Peel, then cut the daikon, carrot, burdock root into rolling wedges by rotating the vegetables as you cut. Pre-boil the taro root but leave a slight crunch, and cut into bite sized pieces. Boil the konnyaku, and cut with a spoon into bite sized pieces as well. Chop the green onion finely.
  2. Heat the saucepan, add a generous amount of sesame oil, and stir fry the pork. When the pork is cooked through, fry the daikon, carrot, burdock root, taro root, and konnyaku until all the ingredients have been coated with the oil.
  3. Add Japanese soup stock (dashi) into the pot from Step 3. Simmer the vegetables while skimming foam off the surface until the vegetables are cooked through. Serve in a dish, and garnish with chopped green onion. If you'd like, sprinkle with ichimi or shichimi spice.

This Pork and Vegetable Miso Soup is one of the true comfort foods that I crave when I travel. Tonjiru (butajiru) is a variant of Japanese miso soup where the diluted miso is added after simmering small pieces of pork and vegetables in dashi. Chunky enough for a light lunch, double or triple the ingredients because everyone will want a generous share. In a small bowl, stir together the pork and soy sauce. Meanwhile, line a baking dish with a triple layer of paper towels.

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